Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.